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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Admiralty \Ad"mi*ral*ty\, n.; pl. Admiralties. [F. amiraut['e], for an older amiralt['e], office of admiral, fr. LL. admiralitas. See Admiral.]
The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
--Prescott.The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
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The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
Note: In England, admiralty jurisdiction was formerly vested in the High Court of Admiralty, which was held before the Lord High Admiral, or his deputy, styled the Judge of the Admiralty; but admiralty jurisdiction is now vested in the probate, divorce, and admiralty division of the High Justice. In America, there are no admiralty courts distinct from others, but admiralty jurisdiction is vested in the district courts of the United States, subject to revision by the circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Admiralty jurisprudence has cognizance of maritime contracts and torts, collisions at sea, cases of prize in war, etc., and in America, admiralty jurisdiction is extended to such matters, arising out of the navigation of any of the public waters, as the Great Lakes and rivers.
The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"naval branch of the English executive," early 15c., admiralte, from Old French amiralte, from amirail (see admiral).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral. 2 (context military English) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally. 3 (context legal English) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses. 4 (context legal English) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts. 5 (context military English) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
WordNet
n. the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain)
the office of admiral
Wikipedia
The Admiralty was the organisation responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in the Kingdom of England, and later in Great Britain, and until 1964 in the United Kingdom. Originally exercised by a single person, the Lord High Admiral, the Admiralty was, from the early 18th century onwards, almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.
In 1964, the functions of the Admiralty were transferred to a new Admiralty Board, which is a committee of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom and part of the Ministry of Defence. The new Admiralty Board meets only twice a year, and the day-to-day running of the Royal Navy is controlled by a Navy Board (not to be confused with the historic Navy Board described later in this article). It is common for the various authorities now in charge of the Royal Navy to be referred to as simply The Admiralty.
The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom was vested in the monarch from 1964 to 2011. The title was awarded to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh by Queen Elizabeth II on his 90th birthday. There also continues to be a Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and a Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom, both of which are honorary offices.
The Admiralty was a former military department in command of the Royal Navy.
Admiralty may also refer to:
Usage examples of "admiralty".
In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.
These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.
When she left the Admiralty, the Viscountess went immediately to the Reverend Father Agaric to give an account of her visit.
Letters were found at the Admiralty which revealed the complicity of the Reverend Father Agaric in the plot.
In the course of the session I shall probably have occasion to request you to provide indemnification to claimants where decrees of restitution have been rendered and damages awarded by admiralty courts, and in other cases where this government may be acknowledged to be liable in principle and where the amount of that liability has been ascertained by an informal arbitration.
And when Coffingswood was finished, the civilians received personal order from First Star Lord Sir Beorn Wyrood himself-via direct link with the Admiralty.
The neudar view of Admiralty Headquarters showed fog-spots clumping, then moving in two streams toward the Library.
The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications later on, in the Admiralty Court, for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict.
Cremille, the first lord of the admiralty, had pronounced my report to be not only perfectly accurate but very suggestive.
He told me that the Admiralty had informed him that the ship was riding at the mouth of the Tagus, and that the captain would put out to sea as soon as he had delivered his dispatches and had received fresh instructions.
This mission cost the admiralty twelve thousand francs, and the minister might easily have procured all the information I gave him without spending a penny.
That morning the British Admiralty had tipped off the American government that a large Japanese invasion fleet had been observed heading across the Gulf of Siam for the Isthmus of Kra, which indicated that the Nipponese were striking first at Thailand and perhaps Malaya.
I do resolve one day soon, however, to learn the multiplication table, which meseems should be of value at the Admiralty.
I shall take all the hands Ringle can spare, but leave her enough to bring the outcome to you, lying off the port: she will also bring out a written account, a dispatch, and you would oblige me extremely by confiding it to your friends bound for England, begging them to deliver it to the Admiralty.
But the Admiralty seemed to be the densest gathering, the most numerous, the best organized: the political entity most suited to become the heart of an expanding empire.